Edouard-Léon Cortès (French, 1882-1969). Marché couvert dans un passage Parisien, 1963. Oil on canvas. 36-1/4 x 29 inche...

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Edouard-Léon Cortès (French, 1882-1969)
Marché couvert dans un passage Parisien, 1963
Oil on canvas
36-1/4 x 29 inches (92.1 x 73.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Edouard Cortès

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF COLLETTA RAY MCMILLIAN, HOUSTON, TEXAS

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Wally Findlay Galleries Inc., Chicago (inventory no. 5287), acquired from the above, 1963;
Robert H. Ray, Houston, Texas, acquired June 13, 1966;
Collection of Colletta Ray McMillian, Houston, Texas;
Estate of the above.

EXHIBITED:
Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida, The Poet of Paris in Oil, December 1963 - January 15, 1964.

LITERATURE:
N. Verdier, Edouard Cortès, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Volume II, Paris, 2009, p. 38, fig. 55, illus.



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